APPENDIX. 



SECT. 3. Modes of ehdofmg. 

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1. Common ditches. 



2. Louth fences.* 



3. Sunk fences. 



4. Drains in boggy and fwampy fituations. 



5. Living fences, without a gripe or a trench. 



6. Temporary dead fences, made principally of Scotch 

 fir, cut down at the age of ten or twelve years. 



7. Common paling, by poft and rail, and by (heep- 

 hurdles. 



i . The common ditch is chiefly adopted for all the 

 interior parts of enclofures and plantations. The gripe 

 is generally feven feet wide at top, and two feet at bot- 

 tom, and, where the foil will bear it, five feet deep on 

 the perpendicular. An off-fet or fcarcementf is always 

 introduced, from fix to twelve inches broad, according 

 to the nature of the foil, or the pofidon of the bank ; 

 if the ground falls away from the bank, fix inches for 

 off-fet will anfwer ; if the reverfe, twelve inches are 

 generally allowed} and, if the bank be on level ground, 



or 



* So called by the writer, from a Ipecimen feen by him, 

 many years ago, at Rofy Park, in the county of Louth, 

 upon a fmall fcale, but executed in a neat and workman-like 

 manner. 



f A common phrafe in this county for an off-fet. 



